Should I attend bath

I just had the worst time of my life. I had predicted three As but somehow managed to get ABB. I was supposed to go to Manchester for accounting and finance but got rejected. However I got an offer from Bath for Accounting and Finance. Should I attend Bath or take a gap year? Is it a better choice than Manchester for Accounting and finance?

are you talking about uni of bath? if so, uob is great! top ten uk uni you cannot go wrong. higher ranked than manchester, however manchester is not far behind so both very solid choices. can I ask if you got the bath offer through clearing?

Hey! I'm going to bath for econ this year (was meant to go last year but ended up taking a gap year and doing an internship), and figured I might as well quote some stats/info to help put your mind at ease, as I'm assuming that you've not had the time to do extensive research on bath. I'm assuming you want to go into accounting/corporate finance/professional &financial services in general post graduation btw:
I'm just going to talk from the academic / career aspect rather than the social side as well, as that can be talked about after your feelings of security in your desirability from employers are taken care of:
Rankings (I know general rankings aren't the holy grail ofc, and their criteria places preference to unis in large cities that focus on research, especially in international rankings, rather than course quality, but they do have some use to an extent):
CUG: 8th
Guardian: 6th
Sunday Times: 8th
Guardian for career prospects: 5th
QS World: 148th (top 10%)
CUG for A&F specifically: 2nd (only behind LSE, and let's be real, LSE is never going to move from that spot)

To relieve any qualms about graduate prospects:

Then the hard to avoid (and misguided) statement of "[insert RG uni]/manchester is RG and bath isn't, so manchester is better than bath".

Just remember, warwick is now getting replaced by coventry as a RG, and does this now mean warwick is automatically worse, and no one should go there anymore because it isn't RG anymore? obviously not
statement 2 - "[insert high%*] of grads recruited by top employers are RG" *logically extending the point* therefore to have the best chance at these jobs, i have to go to an RG uni/ I'm doomed if I don't go to one:
Articles say this all the time, but what they always fail to mention is A. of the top 20 unis in the country, the majority of them are RG so of course they are going to be disproportionately represented in grad roles where the firms in question typically intake from the top 10-20 schools, and B. that the distribution of RG intake is not evenly distributed across the 24 schools. for point A, it's the equivalent logic to being surprised that private school students are 7% of the population of age 7-18 students, but take up a disproportionately large cohort at top unis - parents pay for these schools that produce better results on average compared to the average state school, and so will occupy more places at top unis, which tend to have higher entry requirements by default. The statement is completely expected, and it doesn't make sense why this is being published like it should be a surprise when it really shouldn't be.
For point B, these articles make it seem like all 24 RG unis are created equal when it comes to these stats, but of the RG intake for these roles, it is heavily skewed towards the G5 and Warwick (and then Bristol, Durham, Notts, and maybe KCL and Exeter after) e.g. of 100 RG grads into these roles, 50-60 are going to be from G5+Warwick first, then the others quoted, and the rest of them afterwards. By this logic, you are better off going to Queen uni befalst/Newcastle/Cardiff/QMUL/Southampton/Sheffield over bath for a finance related job, which is completely false - going off course quality and brand/name reputation in finance industry, bath clears all of them by a country mile.
TLDR: bath is one of the best unis all around in the country, and is especially strong for business school related courses, you'll be fine mate
feel free to ask any questions / dm me 🙂

You got an offer for A+F from Bath in clearing? That’s pretty amazing! Well known as being a very good course.

Thank you so much mate for taking out so much if your precious time and writing the entire thing which, btw, I read till the end. Helps and means a lot.